He saluted his stepmother respectfully, and embracing his brother, told him that he was content with his lot in being reckoned among the paladins of Charlemagne, and resigned all claims to the crown of Denmark.
And one day his stepmother said to Kilwich, "It were well for thee to have a wife.
My stepmother has declared to me that I shall never have a wife until I obtain Olwen, the daughter of Yspadaden Penkawr.
Yes, and happy and fair as a flower, and her stepmother is still high-tempered and fond of shellfish.
There was no denying the fact that the Lady Anne was about to be the stepmother of the Lady Marguerite, for Maximilian, who was still young and handsome, was shortly to marry the young Duchess of Brittany.
When the stepmother learned what it was her daughter cherished so closely, her heart softened toward the lonely girl, and her life was made easier.
When she was lonely or her stepmother was harsh with her, the girl went to her room and looked earnestly into the mirror.
Then King Lir returned and met the cruel stepmother at her father's palace.
Illustration with caption: "'There never was such a dear, lovely, beautiful stepmother on the face of the earth!
The verdict of the historian is that she had been a stepmother to the commonwealth of Rome; and this perhaps expresses her politics better than any other term that could be employed.
She had even been obliged, at a time when other girls of far inferior birth were perfecting themselves in more fashionable accomplishments, to assist her aunt and her stepmother in spinning wool for her father's clothes.
And having before him the domestic history of more than one imperial family in which were exhibited the tender mercies of such a stepmother as was Livia the wife of Augustus, Antoninus may well be excused for his precaution.
There was once a stepmother who, besides her stepdaughter, had a daughter of her own.
And the stepmother was preparing her funeral feast and frying pancakes.
And the stepmother took it into her head to drive her stepdaughter from the house.
The stepmother looked at her, and threw up her arms.
Holena and her stepmother were more surprised than ever to see Marushka coming through the snow with red apples in her hands.
Again the stepmother sided with Holena and, taking Marushka roughly by the shoulder, she pushed her out of the house and slammed the door.
So the stepmother put her fur cloak about her shoulders, threw a shawl over her head, and started out.
This will never do," the stepmother thought to herself.
Marushka, the dear child, didn't know how pretty she was and so she never understood why, whenever she stood beside Holena, the stepmother frowned so crossly.
For the third time the stepmother sided with Holena and, taking Marushka roughly by the shoulder, pushed her out of the house and slammed the door.
Illustration: Marushka and Holena] The stepmother sided with Holena and, taking Marushka roughly by the shoulder, she pushed her out of the house and slammed the door.
He was the son of a rich farmer but on his father's death his stepmother robbed him of his inheritance and drove him out into the world, penniless and destitute.
The young king would not allow any one to be called, and ordered his stepmother to give out that the child fell from the mother's arms at the window, and that a wild beast ran off with it.
The only thing that disturbed him while riding along was the displeasure his stepmother would feel at what he had done.
The wicked stepmotherdid all she could to make mischief, saying she was sure she was only a woodman's daughter; but nothing could disturb the young king's opinion of his wife.
Conn-eda told his friend the whole history of the transaction with his stepmother from the beginning to end.
A few low murmurs from Hepworth, bursts of grief from Lady Clara, and dead silence on the part of Rachael Closs, attended the first disagreement that had ever set the stepmother and daughter in opposition.
On their way home Lady Clara told her stepmother of her visit behind the scenes.
In the birth of her own love, she found intense sympathy for the intense passion that seemed to consume her stepmother like a living fire.
So, as your stepmother might be pleased, what objection would there be to inviting this gentleman to the castle?
Lady Clara has added to this by refusing to visit Houghton unless her stepmother is received there also.
I was tired of this, and begged my stepmother to find me some place where I could earn my own living.
Her stepmother says that she would often linger after the usual bed-time, to talk over what she had heard, when bright, deep or solid observations would alternate with gay anecdotes apropos of the work or its author.
Her letters to her stepmother and sisters during this trip are frequent and detailed.
But almost before it was true, she tells her stepmother that she is off the invalid list.
Her stepmother appears to have taken great pains with her, conversing with her as an equal in every respect but age.
Everything that she could do for her she did, but the stepmother hated her worse and worse, and a powerful wicked witch was she.
Well, they lived along, and Fair Ellen served her stepmother well.
Angus Mac Pherson loved Fair Ellen as he did the apple of his eye, but all the same her mother had only been dead a year when he was for marrying again and bringing a stepmother into the house.
After he had been gone a little while thestepmother said, "Come, Fair Ellen, we are both sad and down-hearted.
It was not werewolf in the wood, it was not mermaid in the sea, but it was my wicked stepmother that wrought this cruel spell on me.
Had our stepmother and ourselves been certain of any mutual affection, that expression might have signified contempt for any outward manifestation of our love.
The sudden fierce jealousy and the pitiless cruelty of their stepmother to the children of Lir is set over against the exquisite tenderness of Fionnuala, which pervades the story like an air from heaven.
My stepmother never recovered the natural tone of her health and spirits after my sister's birth.
My stepmother lived and died a sane woman--as sane as I am this moment.
But Pansy was not indiscreet even in thought; she would as little have ventured to judge her gentle stepmother as to criticise her magnificent father.
If he was in love with Pansy he was not in love with her stepmother, and if he was in love with her stepmother he was not in love with Pansy.
I do not remember any Cinderella among the Russian Tales, though there are stepmother stories, which pair off with others of the Roman.
Before they could reach her, however, Maria had restored her beautiful raiment to the golden ball, and, in the sordid attire in which her stepmother dressed her, she could easily pass through the crowd unperceived.
The cruel stepmother determined that Maria should be deprived of a friend who enabled her to set all her hard treatment at defiance, and next morning told her that she was going to kill the cow.
The harshness of a stepmother and her own indulged propension to vice cast her headlong into the greatest disorders.
Scarcely had all this passed than the stepmother came back, with her servants, each carrying a can of boiling water.
As the most terrible penance she could think of, she resolved to go back to her stepmotherand endure her hard treatment, sharpened by the invectives with which she knew it would now be seasoned.
There are details in it, however, like Filagranata and others, not actually of the Stepmother group.
Just as the father and his daughter were starting to go away, Maria drove by in a gilded coach with the prince her husband; so he had the satisfaction, and her stepmother the vexation, of seeing her triumph.
The stepmother was furious at seeing them come back, but she said nothing in order not to rouse their suspicions.
One day her stepmother had sent her out to tie up bundles of hay.
Will you please take us in and give us shelter for the night, for our stepmother has turned us out of our home?
Then she told them how her stepmother had wished to get rid of her, how the Huntsman had spared her life, and how she had run all day till she had found the house.
Early in the morning the stepmother came and pulled them out of bed, and gave them each a slice of bread, which was still smaller than the former piece.
They smiled and wept; and soon they understood how cruel their stepmotherhad been to them all.
The two children, however, had not gone to sleep for very hunger, and so they overheard what the stepmother said to their father.
Some time ago there lived there a boy, whose stepmother was very cruel to him--so cruel that his whole aim and object in life was to obtain money enough to set up for himself and escape from her tyranny.
Their stepmother ruled their weak-minded father with a rod of iron.
Mr. Hare-Naylor was too apathetic, and his stepmother did not dare to interfere with him: Lady Jones was bewildered by him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stepmother" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dam; mammy; mother; mummy; parent; stepmother
